David Ogden Stiers

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.